16 FEBRUARY 1968, Page 29

Crossword no.1313

Across 1 Hairdos for passengers in fast liners? (8) 5 Put me in the gun when making port (6) 9 It surmounts the 1 ac. of sefioras and setioritas (8) 10 Pitfalls for drummers (6) 12 Primrose girl (6) 13 Joy, make the request definite (8) 15 Aylesbury juvenile of great potential (4, 8) 18 Dawn soloists (12) 23 Water-colour, of course! (8) 24 Reluctant to have even a few lines of poetry (6) 26 Twist exponent? (6) 27 Waiting about to join the Brighton clique? (8) 28 Scatter, minus family, to pick up Gaelic (6) 29 Daddy! (8) Down 1 A pair of night prowlers likely to get a beating!

(6) 2 Joke said in France to a learned Oriental (6) 3 Colourful masthead activity of the unsubmissive (7) 4 'The very word is like a bell To — me back' (Keats) (4) 6 Rushed to the sherry in search (7) 7 Antipodean baby-bags? (8) 8 Saving lures (4-4)

II Colin in a patch presumably (7)

14 To lose a letter is enough to make one faint! (7) 16 This military movement must be sharp (8) 17 Within in good taste and very county! (8) 19 Characteristic of the 'Trumpet Voluntary'? (7)

20 Diamond pendant—of the first water, of course! (7)

21 Ejaculation of a rump-fed ronyon (6)

22 Church attendant who seems always to be on edge (6)

25 All or nothing (4)

Solution next week

Solution to Crosswo d no. 1312. Across: 1 Hedonist 5 Tragic

9 Runabout 10 Geared 12 Extols 13 Superman 15 Protuberance 8 Flying-fishes 23 Imagines 24 Beaver 26 Myopic 27 Flea-base 28 Dredge 29 Partners. Down: 1 Hordes 2 Donate 3 Nobbles' 4 Spun 6 Roedeer 7 Garamond 8 Cadences 11 Rubbish 14 Staffed 16 Affirmed 17 Sycamore 19 Nailing 20 Elegant 21 Aviate 22 Breeks 25 Ulna.